A Global History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000
The International Institute of Social History has recently started a new research project. The aim of this project is to write a global and comparative history of textile workers 1650-2000. In order to do this, national overviews as well as thematic papers will be written by several historians across the world, discussed at a conference in November 2004 and finally published. In the first phase of the project, national studies will be written on textile production in different countries over the period 1650-2000. This lengthy period has been chosen to incorporate the pre-industrial period, proto- industrialisation, the industrial production of textiles from its beginnings in Britain in the eighteenth century, and the de- industrialisation of these early centres of the textile industry. But the focus will not exclusively be on well-known industrial nations.
All major textile producing countries will be included. To make them useful tools for international comparisons, these national overviews will be based on a framework document which lists a number of topics/questions to be treated in each overview. On our web page, www.iisg.nl/research/textile.html you will find a detailed description of our intended programme. Please read this carefully, and also take note of the framework document, according to which all national overviews will be written (www.iisg.nl/research/textileframe.html).
Proposals for a national overview are due before December 1, 2002. Please send a short proposal (500 words max.) by email: [MAILTO]textile@iisg.nl[/MAILTO] or by fax: +31.20.6654181.
Lex Heerma van Voss
Els Hiemstra
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31
1019 AT Amsterdam
Phone: +31.20.6685866
Fax: +31.20.6654181
Email: [MAILTO]textile@iisg.nl[/MAILTO]
Visit the website at www.iisg.nl/research/textile.html